Patrons-Only: New Army Poll Results (Patreon)

The poll results are in, and all we can say is, wow, what a ride!

Saying that this has been an overwhelming experience is an understatement, with over 300 messages and more than 4300 votes, we have never seen such a response before.

We are very happy to see how excited everyone is for all of the designs we've come up with, but alas, we have to make a choice. Let's see the results!

Poll Results

The fantasy poll vote was mainly split between Daemons and Ratmen at 23%, then Goblins at 17%, both undead at 13%, and finally Orcs at 10%.

The sci-fi poll had a huge 75% Yes result on doing Battle Sisters, and for the rest we had the Dwarf Guilds at 28%, Daemons and Machine Cult at 23%, then Infected Colonies at 13%, and finally Soul Snatcher Cults at 11%.

Winners: Daemons, Ratmen & Battle Sisters

The results show that both for fantasy and sci-fi, the Daemons are fan favorites, probably because they're usable in both settings. Right behind them however, we have the Ratmen and the Battle Sisters, which are too awesome not to make.

This has thrown a huge wrench in our projections for 2022, but we have a plan!

Since the Daemons are both usable in fantasy and sci-fi, and they will take at up around 8 release slots, we don't think it's fair for either fanbase to have to take the hit of 8 months of continuous Daemon releases, whilst the other gets both those and their own release.

So what we're going to do instead, is that once the currently planned factions for the first half of the year are completed, we'll speedrun our way through the Daemons. We'll be releasing only Daemons for around 4 months, to get all of 4 of them done ASAP.

Then, once the Daemons are done, we will be releasing Ratmen for fantasy, and Battle Sisters for sci-fi. Basically, in 2 polls, you got yourselves 6 armies, congrats!

New Roadmap for 2022

With all of that in mind, here's the updated roadmap for this year:

• Jan - Beastmen + Dynasty
• Feb - Beastmen + Dynasty
• Mar - Beastmen + Dynasty
• Apr - Saurians + Dynasty
• May - Saurians + Jackals
• Jun - Saurians + Jackals
• Jul - War Daemons + Jackals
• Aug - War Daemons + Change Daemons
• Sep - Plague Daemons + Change Daemons
• Oct - Plague Daemons + Lust Daemons
• Nov - Ratmen + Lust Daemons
• Dec - Ratmen + Battle Sisters

What about the rest?

We know a lot of you are excited about all of the other army concepts we've shown, and we will absolutely get to all of them at some point in the future.

At some point later this year we'll be making a new poll for either classic or original factions (still to be decided), which will include more concepts for additional armies, making the choice even harder for everyone. :)

With that in mind however, we're not very happy with the fact that due to how polling works, some of the less voted factions might be left behind for a long time, even though there's a lot of people that want them (10% of our audience is still 650+ people). Here, we have two ideas on how to move forward, and would like to hear your opinions in the comments.

The first idea is to have each poll feature 5 factions, but randomize which factions are available to choose from. As we've seen from the poll comments, people are excited about ALL factions anyways, so no matter what, there will be something for everyone.

The second idea is to hire additional help to work on some of the lesser voted factions separately, and release those outside of the Patreon. This could be done via crowdfunding, and would ensure that they don't clog up our release pipeline.

Anyways, that's it for today, 2022 is gonna be a great year. :)

Happy wargaming everyone!

- Gaetano

P.S.: For those of you that have been around for a while, you may recall that we were originally planning on releasing the sci-fi Saurian Starhost this year, but with this plan, they would only be coming out after the Battle Sisters in mid-2023.

Since we know a lot of people are excited about them, we're currently looking into the possibility of releasing them via crowdfunding instead (matching the Patreon price so you're not getting screwed), but nothing is confirmed yet.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

We got a ton of messages since we revealed the poll results, we've heard your concerns, and we're going to try to find a solution that is realistic for us to achieve.

In order to not leave Saurian Starhost fans hanging, as well as give you something more to chew on than just Daemons for 4 months, we're going to try and see if MAYBE we can release the Saurian Starhost as a third army alongside the rest, starting in July.

Regarding the Dwarf Guilds, we're going to try and fit them into our production schedule the earliest we can, but MAKE NO PROMISES right now without more time. We hear your excitement for them, and we love the concepts too, so we'll try to get to them ASAP.

That being said, this whole polling process has been quite jarring, and is making us re-think the way that we involve the community in our future plans. We still want your feedback, but without setting up wrong expectations that might not fit into our production schedule.

At the end of the day, supporting us means getting on board with our vision for our games, so we should change our feedback collection method to reflect that better.

The idea is that in the future, we will provide a big pool of concepts like we did right now, and only collect feedback on what fans think of them. No results, no winners, no roadmaps, just a way for us to get a sense of what our community is leaning towards.

Then we will use that to set our own schedule and adjust concepts based on the feedback, and keep releasing awesome miniatures for you all to enjoy. :)